Posted by gitrib on September 19, 2009 at 10:30:58 from (76.251.177.224):
My daugter's brother-in law and his wife wife saved Texas Panhandle Ico
There is a movie that is of a ship being moved across the prairie, this house was similiar, only with less trouble. When ever the truck started pulling the house out, it popped a wheelie, it made the turn onto the high way, and headed north. There was one electric line that created a problem, but the house made it over or under, I was too far away to see what was going on there. Of course Rodney & Eric(our nephew) were in the middle of all it. Believe me it took alot of man power getting it out of town. Once it cleared the city limit's it rolled out on the high way, made the turn north on the country road, and proceded.
The actual road, that goes back to the site, about a mile has too many dip's and turns. The house mover had decided to go across the pasture to the site. The fence was cut, the house lurched into the pasture, Steve hooked his dozer on to the truck to help pull, and off they went. At that point all of us moved about quarter of mile south, the real road, and watched. Then we moved to the site, and here it came. Holy cow, it was something. From 9 am to 11ish, the house had made it.
The movers, Steve and Rod when to seeing about backing the house in, had to do some dirt work, one of the monster rain's out there had washed dirt into what would be the underneath of the house, so that had to be moved, and some concrete had to be chipped away. We all had lunch, it took multiple try's to backing the house in to get it squared. However, there was glitch. Steve had failed to make beam holes in the foundation so the house did not get set down. A cement saw and jackhammer will make the beam holes today and the house will get set down. Eric and Gunther, tried to make a stab at breaking out the concrete, and did get some done, but it was determined to wait for the jack hammer. Rodney worked a little with Gunther, but decided, at the end of the day, the jack hammer would be better. However in the world of heavy duty work, Gunther is the hero.
We were able to go inside the house. There are crack's but not near what I thought there would be. Steve's cowboy hats rode on their shelf without a spill, and a movie setting on the arm of the couch didn't fall off.
I will say the view from the front window of the house is beautiful, overlooking the pond & creek. This is well worth all the work...just for that view.
All parties involved, sat and drank beer, in the shade of Rhonda's Tahoe, and determined it was quite a day........
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